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CVE-2021-39937 (GCVE-0-2021-39937)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-13 15:47 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:20

Summary

A collision in access memoization logic in all versions of GitLab CE/EE before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2, leads to potential elevated privileges in groups and projects under rare circumstances

Severity

5.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

CWE

Improper access control in GitLab

Assigner

GitLab CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 75/100 over 317 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/336802	x_refsource_MISC
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
GitLab	GitLab	Affected: >=0.0, <14.3.6 Affected: >=14.4, <14.4.4 Affected: >=14.5, <14.5.2	guessed

Credits

This vulnerability has been discovered internally by the GitLab team

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CERTFR-2021-AVI-921

Vulnerability from certfr_avis - Published: - Updated:

De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans les produits GitLab. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer un déni de service, un contournement de la politique de sécurité et une atteinte à l'intégrité des données.

L'éditeur a également mis à jour les composants tiers suivants pour corriger des vulnérabilités présentes dans leurs versions antérieures : Ruby, Rails, ncurses, libgcrypt, mattermost, graphql, mermaid.

Solution

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

None

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Description
GitLab	N/A	GitLab Community Edition (CE) et GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) versions 14.5.x antérieures à 14.5.2
GitLab	N/A	GitLab CE et GitLab EE versions 14.4.x antérieures à 14.4.4
GitLab	N/A	GitLab CE et GitLab EE versions 14.3.x antérieures à 14.3.6

References

Title

Publication Time

CERTFR-2021-AVI-921

Vulnerability from certfr_avis - Published: - Updated:

Solution

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

None

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Description
GitLab	N/A	GitLab Community Edition (CE) et GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) versions 14.5.x antérieures à 14.5.2
GitLab	N/A	GitLab CE et GitLab EE versions 14.4.x antérieures à 14.4.4
GitLab	N/A	GitLab CE et GitLab EE versions 14.3.x antérieures à 14.3.6

References

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Publication Time

bit-gitlab-2021-39937

Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 11:17

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

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  "id": "BIT-gitlab-2021-39937",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T11:17:25.967Z",
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    },
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    }
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FKIE_CVE-2021-39937

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-12-13 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:04

Severity

5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

References

URL	Tags
cve@gitlab.com	https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39937.json	Third Party Advisory
cve@gitlab.com	https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/336802	Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39937.json	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/336802	Broken Link

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
gitlab	gitlab	*
gitlab	gitlab	*
gitlab	gitlab	*
gitlab	gitlab	*
gitlab	gitlab	*
gitlab	gitlab	*

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GHSA-R45Q-P6M3-6GMV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2021-12-14 00:00 – Updated: 2021-12-16 00:02

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-39937"
  ],
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    "github_reviewed": false,
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  },
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  "id": "GHSA-r45q-p6m3-6gmv",
  "modified": "2021-12-16T00:02:47Z",
  "published": "2021-12-14T00:00:43Z",
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GSD-2021-39937

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:23

Details

Aliases

CVE-2021-39937

Aliases

CVE-2021-39937

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    "description": "A collision in access memoization logic in all versions of GitLab CE/EE before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2, leads to potential elevated privileges in groups and projects under rare circumstances",
    "id": "GSD-2021-39937",
    "references": [
      "https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-39937"
    ]
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UBUNTU-CVE-2021-39937 (CVE-2021-39937)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2021-12-13 16:15 – Updated: 2025-10-24 04:50 – Source website

Details

Severity

8.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

5.9 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)

low

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-39937	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39937	REPORT

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "gitlab",
            "binary_version": "8.5.8+dfsg-5"
          }
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        "name": "gitlab",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/gitlab@8.5.8+dfsg-5?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2021-39937",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T04:50:33Z",
  "published": "2021-12-13T16:15:00Z",
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WID-SEC-W-2026-0292

Vulnerability from csaf_certbund - Published: 2021-12-06 23:00 - Updated: 2026-02-03 23:00

Summary

GitLab: Mehrere Schwachstellen

Severity

Kritisch

Scope

19 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2021-39937.

CVE-2021-39937

Known affected: 4 products

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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.

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CVE-2021-39937 (GCVE-0-2021-39937)

CERTFR-2021-AVI-921

Solution

CERTFR-2021-AVI-921

Solution

bit-gitlab-2021-39937

Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

FKIE_CVE-2021-39937

GHSA-R45Q-P6M3-6GMV

GSD-2021-39937

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-39937 (CVE-2021-39937)

WID-SEC-W-2026-0292

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